by andrea | Apr 30, 2019 | Blog
Today is my day on the Typecast of Characters Blog Tour hosted by Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill of Whole Circle Studio! Today’s instalment is brought to you by the letter “R”. Typecast is an alphabet of English paper pieced uppercase letters. Each finishes at 6” x 9”. I had...
by andrea | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Colour, Everyone's Got An X, Sew-Alongs
Everyone’s Got an X features transparency, with translucent “white” stripes overlaid on a coloured bar on a darker background. First up, a couple of definitions and then we’ll get to how we can achieve this effect in our own versions! Transparent: allowing...
by andrea | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog, Colour, Quilts
I have been a faithful reader of Uppercase magazine for a few years now and I finish reading each issue having been injected with a large dose of inspiration. The smell of the ink and the weight of the paper also leave my heart feeling pretty happy. Editor Janine...
by andrea | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog, Quilts
Euclid was a Greek mathematician and the “father of geometry” that lived in the 4th- to 3rd-century BC. Euclidean geometry is basic to our understanding of mathematics, including the Pythagorean Theorem. In the mid 20th-century, Alvin Lustig designed only twelve...